Feels like there’s a few different things that can underwrite a rules-based order with teeth, besides military power (which includes embargos/blockades) Veto-based legal regimes (UNSC) Currency exchange rates (WB/IMF) Technical-standards based (ITU etc) Refugee policies
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Replying to @vgr
One could argue all these orders are built on the foundation of the threat of force.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
That’s reductive. The point is they create a space of possibilities between conflict and force. Kinda tautological that everything is ultimately reducible to force, but in practice that’s irrelevant.
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1/I agree, there are many systems of rules and order other than the direct threat of force (and rational agents under uncertainty modeling same, etc.). And across many domains, there's little guarantee we've hit on anything close to the optimal structure, as opposed to a good
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And violence in practice is vastly different from in theory. Every agent with any significant capacity for violence is constrained by its own bad memories of past ineffective use.
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